Thursday, March 15, 2007

VSTO SE only works with Office 2003 Professional

I think I have finally established that VSTO SE only works with Office 2003 Professional (or any version of Office 2007) when using document level applications, Office 2003 Standard is not supported. Apparently you can install application level apps on Office 2003 Standard (although I have not tested this).

2 comments:

VSTO 2005 requires that Microsoft Office Professional 2003 or a standalone version be already installed as stated here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/54ds2za4(VS.80).aspx under "The following software is required to install VSTO 2005".

VSTO 2005 SE needs to install on top of VSTO 2005 or with Visual Studio Pro also at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/54ds2za4(VS.80).aspx under "The following software is required to install VSTO 2005 SE". VSTO 2005 SE expands the Office supported list to include Microsoft Office Standard 2003.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa942839(VS.80).aspx shows that doc-level customizations do work for Word 2003 and Excel 2003 when developed with VSTO 2005 SE.

Admittedly, VSTO information is found amongst many different MSDN topics, but two other sources of information include the following:http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto2/andhttp://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showforum.aspx?forumid=16&siteid=1